Trump: My Supporters ‘Are Really Calm’ at the Rallies; ‘We’ve Had Essentially No Injuries’

‘But you have these agitators and disrupters ... they are taking away our freedom of speech’

BLITZER: "All right, bottom line, I'll leave it where we started, your message to your supporters about keeping calm out there, protests are fine, but not violent protests, making sure this doesn't get ugly or dangerous, what's your message to your supporters out there?"
TRUMP: "Well, Wolf, my people are calm. They are -- they are amazing people. They -- you know, my theme is, make America great again. That's what they want to see, but every once in a while you'll have a disrupter come in. Now, in Chicago, they had thousands of them standing on the streets, so I did something that I think was really called pretty wise by saying, let's not do it today. But, you know, we really are -- they are calm. They are really calm. But you have these agitators and disrupters and protesters that every once in a while will stand up, it's very rude, they're taking away our First Amendment right, they're taking away our freedom of speech, and it's very -- it's very sad that they're allowed to do it in a sense, but that's the system. My people are calm. We have had essentially no injuries or anything. We've had very little disruption. I mean the biggest disruption was in Chicago where we canceled it because we didn't want to have anybody get hurt. We didn't want to see anybody get hurt. But the people that go to my rallies are amazing people. They love our country. And they really are very calm. They're very enthusiastic, I will say. They want to see something great happen for the country. But they are very, very great people. And they are not the cause of any problems, believe me."
BLITZER: "But even that elderly man who sucker punched that one demonstrator, you don't want that to go on, do you?"
TRUMP: "No, I don't like that. And we don't condone that, Wolf. And I've said that numerous times. Now, with all of that being said, and I still don't condone it, that young man walked up and he made a gesture in in his air with one of -- in the air with one of his fingers, which was not good and was not nice and was very, very horrible to see also. But despite that, I don't condone it and I -- we don't want that to happen."

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